With barely four weeks left (and crawling) before season one of Heroes concludes, those in the know are holding on to what spoilers are left. Ausiello threw us another small but clever bone to chew on when a reader by the name of Dan asked him about Linderman’s powers. He had the following to say:

You know what show I miss, Dan? Carnivale. That Ben Hawkins was one fascinating dude. Oh, the things he could do with his mind…

Keep in mind I don’t have cable so I’ve never watched a single episode of Carnivale so I decided to do a little Googling. For those unfamiliar with the show Ben Hawkins has the Christ like ability to heal people.

Now I’ve been known to take spoilers and try to deduce logical theories as to what is to come without getting to crazy - so here goes. For anyone who has been following the Heroes web comics, the current story arc is focusing on a file HRG asked Hana to find. It’s contents could bring down The Company. The file was on paper and at The Pentagon so she had to do a little dirty work to sneak in and gain access (old fashioned espionage). The file tells the story of a secret rescue mission in Vietnam to find a downed plane that was itself on a secret mission. The rescue team is so secret that they only know each other’s code names and specialties. Before they could find the plane, the team was ambushed and only Dallas (the author of the report on file) and Austin (the medical specialist who turns out can heal people by laying hands).

Comparison shot of Austin (left) and a young Malcolm McDowell (right)
Source: HeroesWiki.com

It’s pretty obvious now that Austin is indeed Linderman. So how can that bring down The Company? Simple, Linderman heads The Company. In a previous web comic (#22 The Path of the Righteous) Hana separates from Matt and Ted to track down the person in charge of The Company. She tracks a wireless trail that leads her to - Las Vegas. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out (even at that point) who she managed to track down - Linderman.

Source: Ask Ausiello